linux-kernel - [PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	mchehab@...radead.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is
 useless

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/media/video/vino.c b/drivers/media/video/vino.c
--- a/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-07 19:37:51.673341747 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-08 09:05:04.618617718 +0100
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int vino_allocate_buffer(struct v
 		size, count);
 
 	/* allocate memory for table with virtual (page) addresses */
-	fb->desc_table.virtual = (unsigned long *)
+	fb->desc_table.virtual =
 		kmalloc(count * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fb->desc_table.virtual)
 		return -ENOMEM;
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